military troops across the border, that is an invasion. if they go in, that is an invasion. there will be severe economic consequences. dana: white house press secretary jen psaki talking about russia and ukraine reacting in a statement tweeted out by the ukraine president. you were quite gracious, we know you haven t seen this yet and you can imagine the president of ukraine was very frustrated. russia, china, north korea were watching yesterday and parsing every word. bill: the initials reaction from diplomats in kiev were shocked when they heard the president describe the minor incursion the way he did. jen did her best to try to clean up. dana: last night the white house had a background call with a senior administration
administration after year one. dana: why the white house when they present viewed the president s press conference talked about the reset. karl rove you re here with us, perfect for this morning. let s get your overall take and show you headlines here. time magazine saying i didn t over promise. joe biden is being defensive in abc news report. an utter disaster. new york magazine says the press conference didn t go quite as planned. it was a very long one. let s get your overall take on the press conference. my overall take is that there are lots of ammunition in there for the president s critics and he gave it to them. i was taken aback with some of it. ukraine, the minor incursion we just talked about. terrible mistake that the russians will take advantage of. no apologies for afghanistan. he thought he did it perfect. covid, i m satisfied with what we ve done and i think we ve
nobody gets killed is a misdemeanor? the president won t wade into the legal justice department or prosecutors. that s his bottom line. he has been very clear and a long-time supporter of cops programs of the police, of local first responders, of local law enforcement and he has been an advocate of additional funding. defunding the police wasn t something he proposed or supported in the face of real criticism within his own party. bill: what would the white house consider to be a quote minor incursion from russia? let me be very clear what the president has conveyed directly to president putin. if there is any movement of military troops across the border into ukraine, if they go into ukraine and invade there is an invasion and severe economic consequences. it is also true and i was at the state department and dana at the state department in 2014. we saw some of this back then. a range of tactics the russians
let s go to the white house where peter doocy is standing by. good morning, peter. a year in the president is recalibrating things and promising a new approach saying he will stop acting so much like a senator and start acting more like a president. president biden: i ve made many mistakes i m sure. if i made a mistake i m used to negotiating to get things done and i ve been in the past relatively successful being in the united states senate, even as vice president. i think that role as president is a different role. folks, he talked about mistake. one mistake was saying in that event that it s okay if russia only makes a minor incursion into ukraine. jen psaki said that s incorrect. the vice president adds this today. the white house press secretary had to actually clarify the president s remarks. i m being clear with you right now. and so if you are interested i will continue to be clear which
official from the national security council to try to clean it up. they must have known immediately once the president said this they had a four alarm fire. bill: the world is holding its breath now. we do not know what putin will do. greg palkot may have a sense of that on the ground live in kiev, ukraine with more from there today. greg, what are you hearing? hello. hi, bill. yeah, as if the ukrainians didn t have enough to worry about now they have been sifting of the lines coming from president biden about the crisis here. we learn some troops are now within 30 miles of the border. there is reaction as you were just noting to president biden s lines including that a russian minor incursion might not trigger a major reaction. fox had a chance to speak with the foreign minister here as well and while he says the u.s. has ukraine s back, he also stated an incursion is an